#Offbeat

So I'm sure someone noticed this since June 30, 2017 when the Master Trials DLC first launched for Zelda: Breath of the Wild, but this is the first many are hearing of it.
As discovered by Kamuilyn on Reddit, the poses that the monks are ma...

Sometimes I don't really have the words to explain my admiration for folks in the MMO community. A lot of folks have a great deal of passion for the genre, and it shows in all sorts of amazing ways. For Lensecandy, it's recreating the Blood...

[Update: Kustom looked at their kingdom they were finally there To confirm their controller, the Prince of Bel-Air.]
Now this is a story all about how
These controllers got flipped-turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute, just...

There are very few people out there who haven't at least tried the original Donkey Kong Country. Nintendo and Rare have made it fairly easy over the years, with many copies of the SNES original circulating out there, as well as Game Boy Col...

I've been sharing The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild clips for over a year now, and amazingly, the community still has some amazing moments left.
We've seen a bear light on fire and take down an entire community, plenty of Yi...

I've had some mighty cakes in my time. Pretty much everyone I knew growing up was aware of my passion for games, so people have me made everything from Street Fighter cakes to Zelda cupcakes over the years. It rocks!
You know what...

WonderCon 2018 was just held at the Anaheim Convention Center this past weekend, and man there are some great cosplay pictures coming out of it -- especially in the wake of Marvel's impending Infinity War.
But one stood out to me in p...

Atlus is the master of good packaging. I mean, the company is nearly unparalleled, as they're consistently delivering the goods regardless of how impressive individual massive AAA collector's editions might sparingly be.
That includes this ...

I've posted about tons of different custom Switch docks this past year and I kind of want all of them. It's not feasible to constantly change them out for each season (though it's tempting), mostly because of how pricey a lot of them are.&n...

Any big game is prone to hacks and exploits, and PUBG has had this growing pain for many moons now. With such a big playerbase cheaters are bound to happen, and development teams employ different strategies, from patching vulnerabilities to...

Ha! This was jokingly teased roughly a week ago but just started making the rounds.
Following the recent Nintendo Direct where the bombshell of a Super Smash Bros. project on Switch was announced, Funimation tweeted out a little jab, a...

Day one patches have been a point of contention for many years, especially for folks who have slower internet speeds or data caps. For those people there's nothing worse than buying a disc, popping it in, installing 10GB of data to your har...

Fortnite has been packing more cosmetics in as they've rapidly increased in popularity these past few months, and that means more potential for bugs.
As vigilant as Epic Games has been and as quick as they are about hotfixing things so...

Nintendo does a really good job at getting their community fired up every now and then, either through offbeat types of viral marketing, or by way of in-game festivities. This stunt is like a combination of both, as the publisher tweeted ou...

Earlier this year Nintendo debuted a special "Super Mario Cereal" line, which featured a red box and amiibo support. Said amiibo support was by way of a chip inside of the box, and when scanned, registered as a "tasty amiibo," and granted M...

Fornite's wacky themes allow for some pretty crazy interactions, and as the game only continues to grow in viewership on Twitch and its playerbase expands, we'll probably be seeing a lot more of those moments.
This scene, from Twitter user ...

Linkle, the contentious addition to Hyrule Warriors, is now playable in Zelda: Breath of the Wild thanks to a mod from content creator Dario Rolle.
Dario's YouTube channel has a playable video of Linkle in action, which not only works wonde...

Although it does take a bit of work, content creator Stemage has laid the foundation for a cheap, sub $30 custom pinball controller for the Switch on his YouTube channel.
In short he uses a docked switch on a vertical-facing television...

Square Enix packs a ton of regularly updated content into Final Fantasy XIV via patches, but they occasionally also craft some great premium cosmetics. While I haven't purchased anything yet from the store myself, a few of the new offerings...

Zelda: Breath of the Wild turns one year old tomorrow. Wow how time flies! The Switch is effectively celebrating its first birthday and it beat out the Wii U weeks ago.
That makes this video, which just hit Reddit this week, that much ...

So this is an interesting one. You remember how in the first Kingdom Hearts there's that initial island where you learn the ropes? Well a lot of you don't know this, but you gain a tiny amount of experience from that training, and you can r...

Man, it feels like every day I'm pining for a 3D printer. I know, I know, they're "cheap" now! Except cheap is relative when you're spending your cash on other hobbies already.
Reddit user cryptid007, among many others over the past few yea...

I have a lot of great memories involving LAN parties. Big games, obscure ones where I had to hunt down people to play with, creating my own CAT-5 cables from scratch that would reach long enough to hook up two Xboxes on different floors -- ...

Given that my wife is in the later stages of pregnancy I've been cooking more often than usual, and I'm pretty proud of a recent sauteed spinach recipe I've concocted (she needs more iron!) among other main courses. But this series of ...

And so my spring term has I passed all my classes, and now I can take it I have summer classes to get ready for in a few weeks, but for now Im just going to sleep, eat, play video games, and touch my wiener to anime I earned

I went from considering ditching my game for next months Band of Bloggers to barely being able to put it It chugged at first, and the frames still dip from time to time, but I think Im slowly falling in love with this

Why is Mario x Rabbids: Kingdom Battle so good? Like, its so much It should not be this Has someone spiked Ubisofts drinks? Even the Rabbids arent as nauseatingly annoying as I thought theyd Weird times